Tempers flare as ‘Lost’ and other TV gets lost in cable outage

“Lost” fans lost their cool as did lots of other Time Warner Cable subscribers when they lost almost a full hour of prime-time programming tonight due to a cable outage.

Major network affiliates affected included WOAI, KSAT, KLRN and KWEX.

Shows on several channels on the basic tier of Time Warner froze between 7:50 an 8:50 p.m. “We’re not sure exactly what happened,” said Gavino Ramos, vice president of communications, Time Warner cable. “We know there was an outage, but we don’t know how widespread it was. Our technicians are looking into it.”

ABC affiliate KSAT and NBC affiliate WOAI said they received many calls from alarmed viewers, who were upset over missing both “Lost” and “Law & Order: SVU.”

For some reason, CBS affiliate KENS didn’t appear to be affected.

“Lost” fans can take heart in this news, however. According to KSAT this week’s episode will be rebroadcast next Wednesday at 7 p.m. before the next one at 8 p.m.